Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-09

-MARTiNSBURG INDEPENDENT
AGRICULTURE BRIEFS.

Fodder has most admirable eff
feet on the respiratory and circula-
tory systems. A horse may be cured
of mild case of heaves by the sub.
stitution of fodder for hay in the
manger.
A great many people suppose that
the frequent mixing of the varieties
in potatoes takes place after plant
ing. This may be true in some in
stances, but more frequently it oc-
ours in the selection of potatoes for
seed.
Buckwheat put in as late crop,
after the deficiencies of the other
grain crops appears, IS useful as q
supplementary crop in the Northern
climate where the growing season
does not edmit of resolving imper-
feet stands of grain.
Foot rot in cattle is occasioned by
their staining in mud or wet stables.
If the feet are sore, place them in a
dry stable, wash the sore with pure
CASTLE soap and water and apply
pine tar after having removed all
ragged bits from the hoof.
Young calves may be fed to adj
vantage upon q mixture OF water,
two spoonfuls of linseed meal and
milk enough to flavor. After few
weeks little sifted oatmeal may be
added. Corn meal should not be
used, as it is productive of the scours.
Linseed or oatmeal may be fed until
the calves are ten weeks old.
A theory has been advanced by q
farmer that the disease known as
hog colera is spread over the coun-
try by carrion birds. 1t is a feet
that crows will eat the flesh of hogs
that have died of disease, which fact
lends plausibility to this theory.
This may serve to illustrate tue i'm
portance of burying or destroying
all hogs that have died of this dis
ease.
Chronic sore throat in horses may
be determined by paroxysms OF
coughing brought on by the contact
of cold water. AS remedy, place
the animal in a stable free from dust
and steam the nose daily with warm
bran mash in a nose bag, and band
age the neck with sheep skin or
heavy flannel. Four drachms OF
aloes may be given as physlc.
The work of farm cleaning is not
complete until those stumps and
stones are removed which can be
taken out with reasonable amount
of labor; until the trees about the
house and orchard are pruned; until
the old growth is taken from rasp-
berries, gooseberries, currants, etc.
until the " under. brush !" is cleared
out of the wood-lot; until all the
bitches are opened and pooles drain
ed in short, until the farm is clean
and neat.
In using mari for potatoes, broad
cast manure over the ground and
pillow it under. Mark out the rows
three feet apart and scatter mari
along the row. Cut the potatoes to
two eyes, drop the pieces fourteen
inches apart, and use two hundred
pounds of super-phosphate in the
rows for two acres, in order to give
the plants an early start, and the
mari and manure will supply food
later during growth. Ridge the pc
tatoes, and when well up harrow the
rows level, and if the crop be ther
well worked the yield will be highly
satisfactory. For corn a shovelfu
of mari to every four hills at time
of planting is excellent.
TWAS formally the custom to grow
corn and other farm crops with only
stable manure as a fertilizer, anC
many farmers aimed to make a shor
supply Of manure go as far as posi-
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